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Australia: The outgoing director of the National Museum of Australia, Dawn Casey, has complained that politically-motivated members of the council have behaved in bizarre ways to prevent her doing her job. They seem to have some interesting opinions too:
Mr Barnett distrusts the museum's staff, dislikes its exhibitions and claims still that the museum's architecture was deliberately encoded with sinister messages,she says.
He imagines, for example, that the night sky ceiling of tiny twinkling lights at the entrance to the First Australians gallery is an encoded reference to the Holocaust. This makes just as much sense as saying it endorses astrology or witchcraft. These and other bizarre assumptions have been politely refuted and disproved again and again, but continue to be offered as evidence of the museum's problematic bias - despite rejections of bias by the museum's recent review,Ms Casey writes.
Casey's farewell to 'white-anters' - The Weekend Australian, 15th December 2003.
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1: Posted by: Red Wolf | December 15, 2003 8:58 PM
Don't know whether this rates as superstition or self-serving politicians kissing up to the PM for advancement. Unfortunately it's only now that she is leaving her post the idiotic dictates of her colleagues has come out. Shame, I would have loved to have seen the silly bastards try to weasel out of their dodgy behaviour via the press. Doubt I would have, seeing as we only have two newspapers, both of which kowtow to little Johnny Coward's every whim
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